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Unresponsiveness

noun
1.
The quality of being unresponsive; not reacting; as a quality of people, it is marked by a failure to respond quickly or with emotion to people or events.  Synonym: deadness.  "In an instant all the deadness and withdrawal were wiped away"





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"Unresponsiveness" Quotes from Famous Books



... little indifferent, considering that it was her fiance who was missing. But no one ever looked for much display of feeling from Helen Thurwell, not even the man who called himself her lover. Indeed, her unresponsiveness to his advances—a sort of delicate composure which he was powerless in any way to break through—had been her strongest attraction to Sir Geoffrey Kynaston, who was quite unused ...
— The New Tenant • E. Phillips Oppenheim


Words linked to "Unresponsiveness" :   responsiveness, frigidness, frigidity, resistance, deadness, unresponsive, quality


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